The candidate for the Senate for the Citizen Force movement, Rafael Alejandro Martínez, filed a complaint with the Attorney General’s Office for a series of electoral crimes, which he knows would be planned to be committed during the March 13 elections in the department of Magdalena .
According to the applicant, he has all the evidence that shows the planning of an alleged electoral fraud, fraudulent voting, favoring voting, conspiracy to commit a crime and corruption of the voter, which according to an investigation and corroborated in the territory, would be ready to be executed in favor of several candidates.
“We base ourselves on an investigation carried out by a journalist in Santa Marta, who determined that a total of 185 people, fully identified in the complaint, would be in charge of carrying out the fraud through the retention of identity cards; others operate with direct advances to the voter, purchase of votes, among other actions”, expressed Martínez.
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He also asked the authorities to verify the evidence presented in the shortest time possible and deprive those responsible of their liberty.
We have asked Dr. Iván Romero, director of the Prosecutor’s Office, to act, because if this materializes they are guilty, they are accomplices
The complaint details that the mechanics used by this network of buying and selling votes is aimed at altering the results of the E14 formats, to add more votes to the candidates who are part of this network of corruption.
According to Martínez’s version, the municipalities where the vote-buying network operates are Aracataca, Pedraza, Cerro de San Antonio, Zona Bananera, Zapayán, Pijiño del Carmen, Concordia, Ariguaní, Pivijay, Ciénaga, El Retén. , Nueva Granada, Puebloviejo and Santa Bárbara de Pinto, with their rural areas.
“In the elections of House and Senate In 2018, an atypical vote of between 40 and 100% of the vote by polling stations was detected in favor of a single candidate and his party, a behavior that was replicated in all the positions,” Martínez stressed.
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In the last security council, where the electoral problem was addressed, Fuerza Ciudadana exposed the evidence of collusion and political friendship between two municipal registrars in Magdalena, Ciénaga and El Retén, with several candidates for the Senate.
“We have asked the doctor Ivan Romero, Director of the Prosecutor’s Office, to act, because if this materializes, they are guilty, they are accomplices, because institutionally they are the ones who can avoid it,” said candidate Martínez.
In the criminal complaint, the member of the Citizen Force movement details the members of this structure, their modus operandi and for whom they work.
“We hope that the National Registry provide the guarantees for the electoral exercise of the next March 13 and that the Attorney General’s Office prosecute those who break the law and prevent the fraud they have orchestrated,” said the senate candidate.
Martinez also pointed out that in the department there is a direct link between the registrar’s office in the department of Magdalena, the special delegates of the district of Santa Marta and municipal delegates with political agents active in political campaigns.
ROGER URIEL
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